Sublime

Michael: I always say that, too, when people compare the show to other sketch shows. We do a completely different thing. If we were a taped show that was condensed to a half hour, if we were able to get every perfect shot that we needed with directors, it would be the best comedy show on TV. But we can’t do that. If we had the talents of Will Ferre

Charlie Brooker: Arquette was always written to seem sympathetic, but in my original version he was probably a bit more stuffy, or more of an old-school psychologist. Michael Kelly brought a lot to the role. He’s very good at doing likeable warm menace!

But an office has a lot more people in it than ten! Greg knew he could get interesting writers with a natural penchant for acting and since he had them under contract in the writers’ room, he could send them over to the set and have them add memorably to the population and life of Dunder Mifflin. Like many great innovations, this was undertaken as